The landscape epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease in South Africa: A spatially explicit multi-agent simulation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2059-2072

  Dion, Elise ^a   VanSchalkwyk, Louis ^b   Lambin, Eric F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foot and mouth disease; Multi agent simulations; Protected area; Spatial epidemiology; Wildlife livestock interactions

Indexed keywords

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; MULTI-AGENT SIMULATIONS; PROTECTED AREAS; SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; WILDLIFE-LIVESTOCK INTERACTIONS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; COAL BREAKAGE; CONSERVATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FENCES; PARKS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); VIRUSES;

DISEASES;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRAZING; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION SIZE; PROTECTED AREA; RESERVOIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VIRAL DISEASE; WILD POPULATION;

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; SYNCERUS CAFFER;

EID: 79956261961     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.03.026     Document Type: Article

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